Dr. Thejasvi Beleyur
IMPRS Board Member
IMPRS Faculty
IMPRS Vice Spokesperson
Main Focus
I'm interested in the nexus of animal behaviour, sensory biology, collectives and all things in between these borders. Using a combination of field observations, computational modelling and swarm robotics I aim to understand how animals carry off seemingly impossible tasks with ease.
For more details on my research group's work - please visit this website.
Curriculum Vitae
2025 - present: Group leader of the Active Sensing Collectives Lab, at the CASCB, Uni. Konstanz.
2021-2025: Postdoc at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour in the Couzin department. Working on analysing the multi-sensor Ushichka dataset of bat collective behaviour and echolocation in the wild
2015-2021: Doctoral work at MPI for Ornithology (Seewiesen) working on echolocation in groups of bats. PhD thesis link
2014-2015: Research assistant and lab manager, Azim Premji University (Bengaluru) - working on web construction and silk investment in social spiders.
Grants and Awards:
2025 : Carl-Zeiss Nexus grant for inter-disciplinary research groups
2021-23 : DFG Walter Benjaming postdoc grant
2021 : Medium grant at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (Uni Konstanz)
2015-2020 : DAAD-GSSP Stipend to pursue doctoral studies at the MPI for Ornithology (Seewiesen)
2013-2014 : CSIR-UGC fellowship (All India Rank 63)
2013-2014: Junior Research Fellow, B.E.E lab, IISER-TVM working on behavioural consistency in social spiders
2008-2013: BS-MS dual degreee in Biological Sciences, IISER-TVM